My Children’s Grief and Sorrow are not Mine to Buffer. I Can Only Share Them.
Another Week Ends: A Darth Vader Nativity, Holiday Blues, Christmas Hope, the Star of the Magi, & the Parable of a Dirty Sock
1. Every year, the Vatican erects a different nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square. They’re kind of a big deal. Past displays have been politically themed, while others were more traditionally beautiful. But the chosen scene this year is causing quite the stir. Including a fire extinguisher, ring-wraith figurine, and an astronaut helmet, the New […]
Before and After the Sun: God’s Eternal Light
From the Beginning to the Middle to the End of Creation, God is the Source of all Light
July 4th, Sufjan, and the Wake-up Call of Death
We’re All Gonna Die with Sufjan Stevens and Tim Keller
Another Week Ends: Christ the Physician, Lincoln’s Grace, Music for Hope, Personal Annihilation, and Night of the Living Karens
Alleluia! Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death that he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. So goes the Pascha Nostrum, an old hymn that Christians have sung for centuries. The liturgical […]
The Body and the Coffin
All this Cheerfulness Keeps Getting in the Way of Us All Being Properly, Deeply Sad
Because It Rains: Why Kobe Bryant’s Death Hit So Hard & Wide
Why Has a Death like that of Kobe Bryant Hit So Many So Very Hard?
Reconciling Sorrow with Grace in Noname’s “Telefone”
“The Dreams of Granny in Mansion and Happy / The Little Things I Need to Save My Soul.”
What Could Be Creepier
This one comes to us from Juliette Alvey. I could never be a hunter. This is not a moral judgment but rather a statement about my squeamishness. I was just driving home and saw a raccoon get hit by the car in front of me. I felt my gut wrench as the animal lay still […]
